Jarvi will teach her kiln glass technique @SlumpFest 2015. Only a few spots remain for two day work shop (10/10-11/15). Two other glass projects in addition to Jarvi’s over the weekend. (This idea started when her bowl was picked for Slumpy’s 2015 Catalog cover!) Share...

Artist Carmella Jarvi specializes in kiln glass, painting & the business of art.

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It’s been a while. Here’s what I’ve been up to… Like many artists, I’m a team of one – with too many tasks & not enough time. This year has been filled with cool experiences, good changes (some painful), plus gleaning, organizing, purging, and tweaking nearly every area of my...

River run is series of cast glass pieces created from late 2015 into 2016. Created by multiple firings, culminating in a cast glass bowl mold. Solid glass bowl is fired into flattened circle. Each is then wall mounted with glass epoxy and special hardware. “River run” composite pieces...

So, I get asked a lot “Where can I see your glass?” Truth is — right now — I work alone in my glass studio or am “crafting” public art pitches & other applications mostly. (More soon.) But, you CAN see my new glass — and get some deals on...

ArtPop — now in growing number of cities in USA — provides local artists with free opportunities to share their art on outdoor advertising spaces. Historically on billboards (thanks to Adams Outdoor Advertising and Arts & Science Council in Charlotte, NC area), spots on s0me city buses and even this new curved digital...

Excited to offer my THIRD in Artist-Entrepreneur Series — sponsored by Small Business Center of Rowan-Cabarrus Community College — on Wednesday, May 11, 2016 from 1:30-3:30pm at Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury! I’ll share more tidbits on how to earn more as an artist — whatever stage you’re at — as well...

What a great start to March 2016! I may complain about technology and being an artist “team of one” sometimes… But, God has been good! Anyone who knows me – even on Facebook – is aware that I belong to Christ. This is something that I’ve become more vocal...

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Adrift is a free standing, table top composite of 4 pieces. Completed in early 2016, it’s first attempt at more literal water. (Also a nod to my savior, Christ!) Close-up detail. (Looked like this at an earlier stage:) Share...

CARMELLA JARVI:

Carmella Jarvi is a glass artist in Charlotte, NC. This McColl Center for Art + Innovation and Vermont Studio Center alumni, and three-time Regional Artist Project Grant recipient’s artwork has evolved from women in water paintings to abstract explorations of water through kiln glass - her primary focus since a trip in 2011 to Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
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Carmella Jarvi’s glass artwork in 2013 was made possible through the support of the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency, the Blumenthal Endowment, and the arts councils in Cabarrus, Cleveland, Gaston, Iredell, Mecklenburg, Rowan, Rutherford, Union, and York (SC) counties.